Best way to render a single Rmd file using blogdown

Question

We have a set of Rmd reports that live in a "knowledge repository" that we render via blogdown.

We'd like to facilitate someone rendering a single report. Is there a best way to do this using blogdown?

If not, what about adding a files argument to render, such that the specified files are rendered (and if not specified, defaults to the current behavior)?

Answer 1

You can use the internal (i.e. not exported) function blogdown:::build_rmds(), e.g.,

blogdown:::build_rmds('content/foo.Rmd')

This will generate content/foo.html. If you have already started blogdown::serve_site(), your site should be automatically rebuilt, otherwise you can manually run blogdown::hugo_build().